Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/24/26 5:30 33F (.55C) AQI 19 Full moon, waxing gibbous. The deck boards, shrunken with the dry cold, rattle beneath my feet. I had hoped to bathe in moonlight,  but I missed it by half an hour. The still night sky is filled with stars. No bird calls, no...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/23/26 47F (8.3C) AQI 20 Clear, blue and dim. A light breeze rattles the oak leaves, swaying the willows and birch. Night begins to retreat from the first incursions of dawn. Jupiter and Mars shine in the south, still accompanied by a few flickering stars. A...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/22/26 39F (3.8C)  AQI 54 It is a cool, damp morning. No rain, but gray with clouds and clammy. I gathered some pine needles  and small branches to place on the coals in the Weber inside the lodge. It took half an hour to smolder into flames. Now it is...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/21/26 5:45 35F (1.6C) AQI 36 Cold, dark and starry. The moon,three quarters full, was waxing bright last night, but now it’s gone to bed, leaving only starlight to fill the dark and windless void in the wee hours of morn. As beautiful as it is, I find...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/17/26 5:45 48F (8.88C) AQI 40 Quiet, dark and calm. It feels warmer this morning. A breeze licks the inside of my ear; a gentle  caress, a fleeting cariño, nothing  more. Stars shine through the broken clouds. Orion chases his prey through the oaks, dogs...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/16/26 5:45 39F (3.8C)  AQI 35 Dark and windless. Quiet. The waxing quarter  moon set about eight hours ago, leaving the sky a black backdrop for a myriad of glimmering stars. Something moving south to north dragging a faintly luminescent tail scattered...